What Should Your Decision Be When Your p-value = 0.052?

A guide for selecting the level of significance

Jae Kim
Towards Data Science
7 min readApr 13, 2023

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In hypothesis testing, the “p-value < α” is almost universally used as a criterion for statistical significance and also as a decision rule, where α is the level of significance. For example, in testing for

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